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Updated: 2016-01-01 Contact: Randy

• Name: John JONES
• Given Name: John
• Surname: JONES
• Suffix: of "Spinners Branch"

Note: They also had a grandson Julius Caesar Jones. Could he be the son of Wood Jones, who gave his sons Latin names?

• Birth: ABT 1735 in Prince George Co., VA
• Will: 13 FEB 1815 Amelia Co., VA
• Death: JAN 1819 in "Spinners Branch", Amelia Co., VA
• Probate: 28 JAN 1819 Amelia Co., VA
• Residence: "Spinners Branch" Amelia Co., VA

Father: Peter JONES b: ABT 1691 in Amelia Co., VA

Mother: Dorothy CHAMBERLAYNE b: ABT 1710

Marriage 1 Martha REDFORD b: ABT 1745 Married: 30 MAR 1761 in Amelia Co., VA

Children

• Dorothy Chamberlayne JONES
• Ann JONES
• Peter JONES
• Judith JONES
• Francis JONES
• John JONES
• Wood JONES b: ABT 1775
• Edward JONES
• Martha JONES
• Elizabeth JONES
• William JONES

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SOURCE: https://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/early-virginia-jones-families/ (paraphrased)

John's father Peter Jones left him the following: Will of Peter Jones, written in 1753, was filed in Amelia County: "Item. …my son John Jones (not yet 21) all my land below the Spinners Branch being part of the tract whereon I now dwell Containing 1000 acres…."

The will of John Jones, proved in 1819, left his plantation to his wife, Martha Jones, during her lifetime, and then desired that the plantation and the fifty acres possessed by his son Wood Jones be equally divided between sons Peter and Wood Jones. He lent "the Negroes" to Martha: James, Matt, Toney, Suny, Tom, Dinah, Patt, Robin, Isaac, Patrick, Jonas, Villars, and Nelly. He granted Martha the power to sell or dispose of Dinah, a Negro slave, including her present or future increase. (he states that any heir objecting to Martha’s right to dispose of Dinah as she sees fit would be barred from inheriting any property). Upon Martha's death, the slaves were to be equally divided among daughters Dorothy Chamberlain Jones, Ann Archer, and sons Peter, Francis, John and Wood Jones. Another slave, Beck went to Martha and then to granddaughter Ridley Wills. Daughter Ann Archer received one Negro woman named Polly and her increase. Caroline Matilda Jones received one Negro woman Peggy and her increase. Grand daughter Prudence M. C. Jones received a Negro girl named Hariet and her increase. Grandsons Columbus Telemicus, Julius Caesar, and Philip Balacarious received a Negro woman named Lucy and her increase. His son Peter received the houses and tenements wherein John Sr., lived to enjoy, and if Wood Jones failed to share the 50 acres and equally divide the plantation with Peter, then he would be barred from inheriting any part of the home plantation. John Jr. had already received a deed for his part of the land and was barred from any further inheritance of land.